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In recognition of International Migrants Day, here is a round-up of some of the migration-related posts from the past year.
A lukewarm welcome
Migrant communities
Happy International Migrants Day!
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Portraits of Chinatown small businesses
Photo: David Ayala.
Photo: David Ayala.
Photo: David Ayala.
If you’re in Los Angeles and are free tomorrow afternoon, I hope you can join Chinatown Community for Equitable Development (CCED) in our first ever Chinatown “cash mob”! We will be walking around the neighborhood as a big group and shopping at family-owned businesses. We hope that this will draw attention to our neighborhood’s great small businesses and the people who run them.
Above are some portraits of participating business owners taken by CCED’s David Ayala.
CCED Chinatown Cash Mob
Start: 818 N. Broadway
Shop: 2pm to 4pm
End: Jenny Mai’s Fast Food, 4pm to 5pm
Tweets: Sikh gurdwara shooting in Wisconsin
On Sunday, white supremacist Wade M. Page walked into services at a Sikh gurdwara in Wisconsin and opened fire, killing six and injuring three. He was eventually shot dead by police. Many turned to Twitter to comment on the news as it developed.
Some Sikhs and experts on Sikhism turned to Twitter to answer questions about the community and share their personal stories.
As I've been running my commentary, I'm wondering - what do people want to know about Sikhs? #Sikhfacts
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Roopika Risam (@roopikarisam) August 05, 2012My Grandpa was on his way to Sikh temple where Shooting took place. Things are much scarier when there's a personal connection via @ksandhu7
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Harjinder S Kukreja (@SinghLions) August 05, 2012The US media suggested that the shooter targeted Sikhs because he confused them for Muslims. This was corroborated by the fact that he was the lead singer in a white supremacist band and had a 9/11 tattoo. Commenters on Twitter were not happy with the media’s slant, arguing that the media suggested targeting Muslims was fine.
This rhetoric of "unfair targeting" of Sikhs is mindboggling - as if targeting of other races or ethnicities is fair? #Sikhfacts
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Roopika Risam (@roopikarisam) August 05, 2012MT @BlackCanseco: Dear [TV news] Now that we’ve established Sikhs aren’t Muslim, can we agree that Muslims aren’t innate terrorists? #FB
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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 (@kerim) August 05, 2012Continue Reading →
